Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto seen at Focus Features 'Dallas Buyers Club' Premiere at 2013 TIFF presented by Audi, on Saturday in Toronto.

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Todd Hill
News Journal

Many are intimately familiar with Murphy's Law, which states that if something can go wrong, it will. Most other eponymous axioms, of which there are hundreds, are far less known, but I have high hopes for my new postulate.

If anything grows too big, it will eventually collapse of its own weight. I'm calling this Hill's Principle. It's based on an observation I've made so many times that I figured I finally needed a name for it.

In the early 1960s, the still relatively new phenomenon of television had grown so popular that TV manufacturers started making little sets that families could plop on ...